Adam Wainwright's Injury Could Put Him Out For the Season, Panic Time in St. Louis

Adam Wainwright, the Cardinals’ best pitcher the last two years, probably will be lost for the season due to a “significant” elbow injury. Wainwright was the runner-up for the NL Cy Young award last year, and finished third two years ago. Expect a heavy dose of “karma!” from St. Louis fans, who probably think this is the penalty the franchise must pay for not signing Albert Pujols earlier this month.

Wainwright’s injury, coupled with the Brewers’ strengthening their pitching staff this offseason, plus the Reds’ having perhaps the deepest staff in the division, probably means St. Louis will have a very tough time making the postseason. The Cardinals last won a postseason game in 2006 – when they won the World Series.

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@illformula – If you haven’t checked it out, Adam Jones did a couple of interviews with the ESPN baseball podcast guys. They were a good listen.

http://www.yodayoushouldask.com YYSA

/taguchi signal lit

sportsdork

Yay!

You’re just a big Kyle Lohse fan, huh?

ASU Sun Devil

Welp, there goes the season.

Carp and Garcia are at risk to spend some time on the DL too. I do not know if there are enough Duncan reclaimation projects out there to build a staff.

Geeezeus

I’m just a casual baseball fan, but sucks to see a very good player likely out for the season. Hope the surgery is a success.

ScarletFever

With Albert Pujols likely to walk in free agency

I like how your evidence that Pujols is likely to walk in free agency is a link to a post you wrote questioning whether Pujols should walk in free agency.

/no spin zone

sportsdork

Yay!

You’re just a big Kyle Lohse fan, huh?

/re-submits all his moderated comments.

http://www.sportsherniablog.com Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia)

All the Cards need to do is sign Darrell Rasner. Rotation fixed.

Garland Greene

Too bad for the Cards. I generally cheer for any team in that division that isn’t the Cubs and Wainwright was always fun to watch.

I guess I’ll be on the Brewers bandwagon this year since I’m a big fan of Marcum & Greinke.

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Yankees beat writers are already speculating – would the Cardinals perhaps consider dealing their 2nd best pitcher, Chris Carpenter, for prospects later this summer?

/eyebrow raise

sportsgal116

I hate the Cardinals… well, I hate St. Louis sports teams in general. Except maybe the Rams. No one really cares about the Rams, right?

phillymantis915

Terrible news to say the least for the Cards. I do agree with you TBL, if Pujols were to walk, the Cards could be looking at rebuilding. Their farm system outside of Shelby Miller isn’t too hot either.

Yankees beat writers are already speculating – would the Cardinals perhaps consider dealing their 2nd best pitcher, Chris Carpenter, for prospects later this summer?

Do the Yankees have any prospects besides Montero?

ASU Sun Devil

With Albert Pujols likely to walk in free agency

Based on? Is there a real posibility he walks? Yes.

For once, I can agree with the Birds mgmt, they want to see what the open mkt price will be. Who knows? It could be $28M not $30M.

bcan83

Ian Snell to the rescue…..

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Unless you think Lance Lynn is ready to enter the rotation and become a factor, and the Cards will sign Pujols.

I think Pujols ends up staying and I think the Cardinals will be fine. Dave Duncan is still their pitching coach; I’m sure they’ll cobble something together. But I didn’t think this team was making much noise, even with Wainwright.

http://twitter.com/Diesel25 Diesel

Hell yes

phillymantis915

Terrible news to say the least for the Cards. I do agree with you TBL, if Pujols were to walk, the Cards could be looking at rebuilding. Their farm system outside of Shelby Miller isn’t too hot either.

/moderated…really?

sportsdork

I guess I’ll be on the Brewers bandwagon this year since I’m a big fan of Marcum & Greinke.

[sarcastic comment about how small market Milwaukee team can’t hope to compete without a salary cap]

http://watchingthegame.blogspot.com/ roarke49

This does suck for the Cards and I wouldn’t be shocked if they are out of the race in July and do trade Carpenter, Westbrook and Berkman to contenders. The Cardinals have been building their teams around a “stars and scrubs” theory for so long (Pujols, Holliday, Wainwright, Carpenter as the stars) that it was bound to bite them in the ass at some point.

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Yankees beat writers are speculating that they can get Carpenter & Pujols for Joba & Phil Coke

Badger

I guess I’ll be on the Brewers bandwagon this year since I’m a big fan of Marcum & Greinke.

Welcome. If they stay healthy it should be a really fun time in Milwaukee come September/October. Interested to see how the back end holds up. Randy Wolf isn’t too bad of option in my opinion.

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The Cardinals last won a postseason game in 2006 – when they won the World Series.